This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and other scholars, politicians, and business professionals understand the causes of economic crises, as they claim, then why do such damaging crises continue to occur? Can we trust business and...

This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and other scholars, politicians, and business professionals understand the causes of economic crises, as they claim, then why do such damaging crises continue to occur? Can we trust business and...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Developments in the Global Economy -- 2 Capitalism, the Market, and Morality -- 3 Shifts in the Global Economy of the 1980s-2010 and Changes in the Moral and Psychological Climate -- 4 International Relations, 1980s-2008: Putting Self-Interest...